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GNU/Linux Command Line Web Browser – w3m

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Command line tool is very powerful in Unix based operating systems, there are times when one has access only to a Command Line Interface but in need of Internet to solve the problem or no Graphical browsers are currently installed. So what is the solution? In fact there are many command line web browsers like www-browser, lynx, w3m….. and so on. So now I am talking about the one I use that is w3m.

  • Syntax: type in command w3m www.example.com
  • Get Help: type in command w3m / man w3m
  • Navigation: Click on the link/Navigate through tab and press Enter key
  • Enter Text in Forms/Search Engines: Click on text boxes/Navigate through tab and press enter then enter text which displays at the left bottom corner again a enter once text writing is finished
  • Quit: type in q and then y

More Information about w3m is found in http://w3m.sourceforge.net/


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